Centrepoint is a national charity working to improve the lives ofsocially excluded homeless young people. It provides a range ofservices, including emergency night shelters and short-stay hostels'specialist projects for care leavers, ex-offenders, single parents,foyers and floating support services. These provide the foundations foryoung people to tackle the issues that led to them becoming homeless anddevelop skills for a sustainable future. Centrepoint will mark its 40thanniversary in 2009 and has helped more than 70,000 young homelesspeople since its inception.
- Where is it based?
Centrepoint's head office is in London and most of its direct provisionservices are based in and around the capital, but it has a growingpresence in the Midlands and the North East.
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